FSA attacks checkpoints in Hama and downs plane in Damascus

Syrian government forces patrol Khalidiya neighbourhood in Homs, July 28 Damascus – George Al Shami? As the world focused on the chemical attack allegations in Syria, 89 people were killed in the country on Wednesday, using traditional weapons, bringing the day’s total number of deaths to 1427, according to the opposition Local Coordination Committees (LCCs). The 89 killed included 13 women, 12 children and three who died under torture, the Committees said.?
The LCCs said 35 of the casualties were killed in Damascus and its suburbs, 19 in Idlib, 13 in Hama, ??11 in Aleppo, six in Deir Ezzor, four in Homs and one in Deraa.?
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Wednesday attacked several government checkpoints in Hama, north of Homs, the political ?security headquarters in Deraa in the south, and shot down a regime aircraft flying over Damascus.?
LCCs recorded 521 instances of shelling, including air raids over 44 areas, the use of barrel bombs in Kafr Zeita, Nafir, Bdama, and Shoghour in Idlib and Der Hafer in Aleppo, eight ?ground-to- ground rockets including six in Jobar in Damascus, one in Muadamiya and one in ?Dariya, a Scud missile in northern Syria and cluster bombs in ?Saraqeb in Idlib, in addition to hundreds of instances of artillery, rocket and mortar shelling.
In Damascus and surrounding areas, the FSA downed a helicopter and targeted forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in Yarmouk camp in the south of the capital. In Jobar, the FSA targeted the government ?communications building, in Zabadani the rebels ?targeted the checkpoints of Harsh Bloudan, Khadam, Aqbe, Jum’iyat, Khazan, and Qala’at al-Tel with mortar shells and explosives.?
In the southern city of Deraa, the FSA hit the political security headquarters in al-Kashef neighbourhood with mortar shells and launched missiles at Hamida al-Dhaher checkpoint, while in Bajha in Nawa, the FSA destroyed a military convoy full of soldiers.?
In Hama in west-central Syria, the FSA attacked regime military centres in the village of Asela, and shelled regime military centres ?in Tal Saken and Jib Ramla with Grad missiles.?
Meanwhile in Aleppo, the FSA attacked Souq al-Souf, Hatab Square and the battalion 84 with mortar shells, and targeted Kweres Military Airport with several missiles, in addition to launching several missiles at the towns of Nebl and al-Zahra.? In al-Raqqa the FSA targeted Tabqa Military Airport with several missiles and ?targeted regime forces centres in battalion 93 in Ain Eissa.?
In Homs, the FSA targeted centres of regime forces in the northern countryside of the city ?using Grad missiles, while in Deir Ezzor, the rebel fighters targeted government army centres in the al-Sana’a neighbourhood.